Sentence examples for invented songs from inspiring English sources

He invented songs about the merchandise that lay beyond the doors, entertaining the crowd with his ditties about lingerie and toys and records.

They were forming the truth about themselves by dreaming themselves into existence as their ideal sort of edgy but heart warming pop group, one that invented songs about how you look at things as you grow up that could exist on the soundtrack to films that were what John Hughes teenage films might be like if they were directed by David Lynch.

In a recurring sequence from when I was about eight years old, I'd look down to find myself in his body, shirt ruffles almost blocking the view of my guitar while I played an invented song that I'd inevitably forget when I woke up.

At night, he would invent songs for her.

In this place where tragedy was invented, the song was joyful and sadly cathartic.

Parton invented a song for Glastonbury especially, rapping about the mud – "we won't let it ruin our high" – as the arena chanted "mud, mud, mud" with a surprisingly musical ear right back at her. Parton must be the only performer in the world who can pull that off.

The Neville Brothers have lately wasted too much of their sets on cover tunes but can still generate the New Orleans funk they helped invent in songs like "Fiyo on the Bayou".

To those who ask what material like this is doing in an opera house, I can only reply that this story allowed me to write both opera and folk music at the same time, to invent work songs for modern jobs like dry cleaning, and to find present-day uses for beautiful operatic forms, such as the aubade, or dawn song – which Hassan sings while tending his kebab van.

They can strip off layer after layer until they're basically releasing demos; dress their productions up in slick period sounds or invented aesthetics; interpret songs from wherever.

I object to the notion, however, that the popular show about Cylons and the enduring universal mysticism of various Bob Dylan songs invented the term.

The children who succeed turn their backs on the cookie, push it away, pretend it's something nonedible like a piece of wood, or invent a song.